A new creature over there going by the name Knowledge Transfer. Loud, crude and obnoxious. I have to believe it is someone returned after being banned but I am not certain who.

What frustrates me is that he got direct and insulting; yet, the moderators gave him a pass. Some of my responses to him were deleted, especially when I pinned him down. Because of the deletions, the entire stream makes no sense in places.

I get banned for disagreeing with Horwitz/Jason Todd/Slidellman4life, but Knowledge Transfer gets to do THAT and nothing happens?

I'm still amazed they banned you. I also agree with Jocasta: banning reasonable polite folks while leaving the jerk fundies makes them look like hypocrites...and, well, if it talks like a duck and looks like a duck and doesn't act like it preaches to its fellow ducks...

If you thought Trump was a better option for President of the United States than Hilary Clinton, you are an idiot, and/or evil.

Thank you for proving my point.

Oh FFS why is it so bloody important to protect the fee fees of people who voted for someone knowing them to be a racist, rapey, sexist, unstable, chronically stupid douchebag?

Stop it Lana, it's political correctness gone mad!

Haven't you ever considered why so many people voted for Trump? Have you wondered why rural America won Trump the election?

People like to talk about "red states" and "blue states", but looking at the county level gives a more complete picture.

Trump overwhelmingly won rural communities. This is because they're in awful straits, and the country doesn't seem to care about them. To a lot of these people, a vote for Trump was a means to be heard. Everyone lashes out when they don't have a voice. And you want to continue dumping on these people? When you find yourself in a hole, maybe you should stop digging.

Awful straits they completely and totally deserve for being so stupid, so abysmally and horrifically dull as to continue voting for people who promise only to make their lives worse and "promote Christian moral values"; translation: put bizarre and archaic religious laws to the book that are manifestly unconstitutional and serve only to waste time and let Republican Congressmen continue to drink and party - why care about people who are slaying themselves so efficiently? For all that they squawk about white genocide, it seems they're doing the job admirably well with no outside assistance or phantasmal deep state needed.

They bring these things on THEMSELVES, and then go on and on about self reliance without a care for the sheer irony in this statement.

The rural voter is so pathetically stupid and uninformed they do not recognize coal is a dying industry, and immediately believe any and all fear-mongering about renewable energy.

These are people so poorly educated they vote for less and less sexual education and then wonder why so many of their youth turn to drugs, to trailer homes, and to younger and younger families.

Dpareja says these people were hungry for populism, and if they were so incapable as to leap for the first leader promising to make their miserable existences better, then that is all the more a stirring indictment of populist politics as a whole and populist politics in America in particular. Demagoguery will NEVER lead anywhere but the dustbin.

They could very well inform themselves about their vote, but instead they chose Trump, they chose a headcase, a demented and perverted imbecile who managed to bankrupt a casino. They CHOSE. And they chose poorly - and thus are morally culpable when they continue to support him and run to support any Republican in office simply because he has an R in between parentheses at the end of his name. They cannot discern cause and effect!

I'll just drop a trope here; It Is Beyond Saving. That is my opinion on these people - ever like the painted gold idol in a grand temple; demanding so much respect from gobsmacked visitors yet capable of nothing truly of note.

Of course, as Grey Tribe faiths usually involve a transcendental impersonal absolute, there's also a strong messianic current either way. As a capitalist hero, enemy of political correctness, denouncer of leftist lies and destroyer of public institutions, the current POTUS is currently the clear ecumenical pretender to this title, though opinions are still divided over his actual status.

Most of your criticisms are at least arguably correct but this one is really odd. I have not met a single rationalist/grey triber/whatever you want to call 'em that likes Trump. I'm sure some exist, but it's not at all a general trait of the subculture.

Update: ISIS claiming responsibility. 2 men arrested. One is a Spanish national, the other is from Morocco. 13+ Dead, Over 100 injuries. Someone else was killed in an explosion in a home that was connected to this. Still not sure how many total attackers are involved.

I also remember hearing from twitter that this was outside a Kosher restaurant that's popular with tourists (backed up with the fact its the height of tourist season in Barcelona right now, as per the article)

Anybody shocked or outraged by this clearly doesn't know the stance of the ACLU. They've helped protect the free speech of Westboro Baptist and actual Nazis organizing actual Nazi marches before. And I wouldn't have it any other way really. They protect shitheads just as much as the rest of us as long as everyone involved is within an equal legal framework.

If the government and society was ever was completely overrun by say, a bunch of fundies that think Atheist or "evolutionist" people posting ads, holding rallies, or whatever was hatred against Christianity the ACLU would (and should) protect us from overreach.

The only time that there should be intervention is if it gets violent or someone encourages other people to commit acts of violence against innocents or political opposition like there has been recently in Charlottesville with that White Nationalist who ran people over and the night before that when the rest of his gang started punching the people counter-protesting.

If you thought Trump was a better option for President of the United States than Hilary Clinton, you are an idiot, and/or evil.

Thank you for proving my point.

Oh FFS why is it so bloody important to protect the fee fees of people who voted for someone knowing them to be a racist, rapey, sexist, unstable, chronically stupid douchebag?

Stop it Lana, it's political correctness gone mad!

Haven't you ever considered why so many people voted for Trump? Have you wondered why rural America won Trump the election?

People like to talk about "red states" and "blue states", but looking at the county level gives a more complete picture.

Trump overwhelmingly won rural communities. This is because they're in awful straits, and the country doesn't seem to care about them. To a lot of these people, a vote for Trump was a means to be heard. Everyone lashes out when they don't have a voice. And you want to continue dumping on these people? When you find yourself in a hole, maybe you should stop digging.

You mean:

America's rural areas are gerrymandered favoring conservatives.Rural people vote for people who'll withold government welfare from city slickers, particularly if they have funny names and skin tones or worship places not found in one pub towns.

Yeah. Righto.

I don't give a flying fuck if you have a cornfield in your backyard, if you vote for a con man, sex offender, bigot and headcase whose not shy about any of that then you're morally culpable!